Joan Williams' third novel, a roman a clef of her relationship with William Faulkner, is the poignant and unusual story of the love between a world-famous writer and a young woman who comes to pay homage to him. Looking to novelist Jeffrey Almoner for advice and inspiration, inexperienced, naive Amy Howard writes him a letter full of all the pain and joy of her youth. The jaded author is moved to respond, and soon the two are meeting clandestinely, in bus stations and off Mississippi back roads, drawn into an affair complicated by her keen awareness of the great difference in their ages and by his marriage.

The wintering

Williams, Joan

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Signed by the author on ffep, with dedication to previous owner also on ffep. very good clean copy in very good DJ.

Pariah: And other stories

Little,Brown

A middle-aged Southern white woman, inspired by the civil rights movement of the sixties, campaigns for and wins a county office in a male-dominated, northwestern Mississippi community and searches for the truth about her mother's murder

County Woman

Literature & Fiction

United States

Little,Brown & Co

Pariah and Other Stories (Southern Writers Series)

Short Stories & Anthologies

AVON.

Returned to her native Mississippi, Laurel Perry becomes enthralled by the imprisoned, wealthy Hal MacDonald, moving inexorably toward marriage, loss of freedom, and mortal peril

Pay the Piper

E.P.Dutton

The Morning and the Evening, originally published in 1961 and winner of the John P. Marquand First Novel Award, signaled the arrival of a writer of first-rate talent. Set in the small town of Marigold, Mississippi, The Morning and the Evening tells the story of Jake Darby, mute, and to most of his fellow townspeople, "not quite right in the head." At age forty, he is as innocent and trusting as a child. When his mother, with whom he has lived in a run-down farmhouse, dies, Jake is left at the mercy of the people of Marigold, and the tragic nature of what ensues forms the heart of this moving novel. The Morning and the Evening is a work of unusual maturity, warmth, and vision. It is Joan Williams' unerring understanding of human emotions - of our stumbling, groping search for love in a world that can be unspeakably cruel - that gives this novel its power and resonance.

The Morning and the Evening (Voices of the South)

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Joan Williams' third novel, a roman a clef of her relationship with William Faulkner, is the poignant and unusual story of the love between a world-famous writer and a young woman who comes to pay homage to him. Looking to novelist Jeffrey Almoner for advice and inspiration, inexperienced, naive Amy Howard writes him a letter full of all the pain and joy of her youth. The jaded author is moved to respond, and soon the two are meeting clandestinely, in bus stations and off Mississippi back roads, drawn into an affair complicated by her keen awareness of the great difference in their ages and by his marriage.

The Wintering (Voices of the South)

The Idea of the Novel in Europe, Sixteen Hundred to Eighteen Hundred

History & Criticism

New York University Press

Europe--1992: Progress Report : October 1989

Perry, Suzanne

Madian, Alan

Business & Money

Lafayette Pubns

A compendium of research studies from some of the mostprominent researchers studying the dynamics of workplace flexibility inorganizational psychology, sociology, and law. They explore gender inequalityin access to and rewards/punishments from flexible work schedules, paid leave,and telecommuting

The Flexibility Stigma (Journal of Social Issues (JOSI))

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Wiley/Blackwell

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